Thursday 25 July 2013 13.55 EDT
First published on Thursday 25 July 2013 13.55 EDT

A police officer exposed himself to a burglary victim during a visit to her home to assess break-in damage, a jury heard today.

Detective Constable Jeffrey Davies is accused of exposing himself to the woman during a follow-up visit several days after the burglary. The mother-of-one ran out of her bedroom in shock, allegedly leaving the smiling officer with his trousers round his ankles.

Days earlier he had allegedly already made "lewd comments" about her breasts when she was at the police station to make a statement.

Davies, 42, is on trial at Swansea Crown Court, where he denies sexually assaulting two women and exposing himself to another.

He was a South Wales Police Detective Constable in Merthyr Tydfil, where he lives, at the time of the alleged incidents.

The jury watched a video interview of the woman, who cannot be named, giving a statement about his alleged behaviour.

Lucy Crowther, defending, then cross-questioned the woman, who gave evidence via a television link from an adjacent room in the court.

The woman, who lives in the South Wales valleys, was a burglary victim in March 2011.

She admitted today that she did not mention the lewd comments that Davies allegedly made about her breasts for more than a week.

Afterwards Davies visited her home to see damage done in the burglary and was taken to the bedroom, where the bed had been broken.

"Despite what you say happened in the police station, you had no concerns about letting Jeffrey Davies into your home to look at the damage that had been caused by the burglary?" Crowther asked.

"Did you even think about it?" she added.

"I quite often get comments about my breasts from other men. The difference is that he was a police officer," she said.

She said she led the officer into her bedroom with her back to him and when she turned round he was standing there with his penis exposed. "I was shocked," she said.

She estimated that the incident lasted 30 seconds and she quickly pushed open the door and ran downstairs.

Crowther alleged that she only reported Davies after he called her to say he would not substantiate her insurance claim.

The woman denied that that was true.

Crowther also highlighted that the woman had appeared before a magistrates' court before the burglary for falsely claiming benefits.

She suggested that the woman was making a false insurance claim because she needed the money, something the woman denied.

Previously the jury has heard from another alleged victim who claimed that Davies forced her hand on to his groin as she was leaving an interview room after giving a statement.

The two counts of sexual assault Davies faces are alleged to have happened in 2010. The alleged count of exposure happened in 2011.